RDG Otaku “Steal Reading’s Hashtag”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 7, 2013 07:12 JST
- Tags: Internet, Mass Media, Otaku, P.A. Works, RDG, Twitter, UK
“Japanese cartoon” fans of RDG – Red Data Girl – have caused an upset in a UK paper after the volume of their twits on the #RDG hashtag easily obliterated the previous Reading-related activity.
The flood of “more than 17,000” tweets after the airing RDG apparently overwhelmed those of the backwater Berkshire town, upsetting their local rag.
News evidently being in short supply in the town, the story was front-page news, narrowly beating out features on potholes and village traders:
Whether the production staff ever bothered to check on whether the tag was actually in use beforehand is not clear, but it seems likely that in typical Japanese fashion they are aghast at having caused such an inconvenience.
Amongst the wicked Japanese cartoon fans responsible there is some sympathy:
“How sad… unless they make a system to handle duplication of hashtags I guess it will continue to happen.”
“Can’t be helped, there are only so many.”
“With 3 character tags it is surprising there are any left.”
“P.A. Works are trying to change it to #RDG_anime now.”
“With a small town having a 3 letter tag this was bound to happen.”
“I guess there’ll be a collaboration with Reading now!”
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The people of Reading should worry more about their football team's imminent relegation from the Premier League.
haha losing at everything xD
Southampton gave them a good beating today <3
Cause they have been reading to much to really care really.
'Reading', as in the place, is pronounced 'Redding'.
If I wanted to pronounce it as 'Redding', therefore it should be named as such. And not as 'Reading'.
@14:32
It's the English language. Get used to it.
This man speaks the truth. If it weren't for their top-flight status, or rather "yoyo team" status, no one would even have heard of Reading, unless they're from Reading, Pennsylvania.
PA Works could consider a PR scoop by having Reading promote RDG
Perhaps Red Data Girl fan-tourists will now flock to Reading instead of the usual Japanese towns/schools/onsen.
lol i guess it's otherway around :P
Slow news day?
The potholes made me laugh.
Oh well, first come first serve...
It's no El Oniichan.
>Japanese cartoon
Stupid Britfags.
right, idiot
To be fair, they did write "anime" once.
I was actually watching a bit of there match against South Hampton to see if there was any mention.
That could have worked if the already announced Saint Oniisan anime had been ready by then.
WTF, they claim that tag is "theirs"? I hope everyone will still use #RDG, despite P.A. Works attempts to change it!
If they've been using it longer how is it not theirs?
It's similar to the native americans no longer owning their country.
haha damn right
shut up.. everyone free to use any hashtag
Time to hit that Share link on this article for Twitter. #rdg
okay let's troll getreading :D
"Red Data Girl" supernatural power accidentally owns #RDG
himegami chikara da .. :D
Japanese "Cartoon" Series FUUUUUUUUU
i guess they never watch anime :D
#AccodingToKeikaku
#FTW #GG #WWW #JAV
I was hoping for more on the pothole crisis.
You have to be completely retarded to think yo can actually OWN a tag. Next, some language protection society should sue the town for stoling a verb for ther name LOL
Nice detail from P.A. Work trying to change the tag to avoid confussion. Useless, but nice.
at least, there's no free ads for that small town :P
It will come to this once some circle specializing in amagami AND inu x boku decides they need a spartan tag.
It's the other way around.
The activity of reading was invented in the town of Reading and that's how the verb got its name.
>twitter
must be a slow news day on sankaku to post about a small towns slow news day article
Reading's pretty big. It's bigger than most UK cities but doesn't count as one since it hasn't got a cathedral. On the other hand, it's boring and ugly, so nobody wants to tweet about it.
God that frontpage looks sad. It's like CNN desperately trying to get the readers to give them stories.
u should change to #grdg for getreading..
not #grdg for "GRUDGE" hahaha..
well, popularity contest :D
Twitter is shit. It utterly fails at the execution.
Awful interface, awful functioning. Features are so badly designed or lacking.
Interesting idea, so so badly implemented.
This reminds me of the time when some unknown lady named Colleen Doran threatened to sue internationally known artist Colleen Doran for hogging all the Google results.
Reading isn't that small. The population is over 250,000.
ahah that is just hilarious, what are the chances of that!